The People's Forum: Ukrainians are not stupid so your theory falls apart at that.

They understand that that sort of peace will just mean Russia will rearm itself and attack again in a few years' time. There is absolutely no reason why they wouldn't.

Any peace deal would have to include Ukraine not joining NATO so they would be left defenseless again. Next time Russia will not do that stupid convoy thing and spend first year of the war wasting their best troops.

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...whatever terms they could get regarding loss of territory. They're exhausted by war and many of their men of military age are clearly not up for this anymore.

If there'd been an election allowed in the last 6 months that would have come across loud and clear and maybe even Zelensky dumped out of office.